Friday, May 11, 2007

The Coin Drive Will End This Monday (May 14th) After School, So Please Get Your T.A.'s To Make Some Last Minute Donations. Please Also Tell Your Teacher Advisers To Put The Coin Containers In The Marked Box In The Main Office. Thanks!!!

Every Stand-person within a six hour drive of the Cape!One of the coolest things about being part of STAND this past year has been the road trips to support the cause whether as close as neighboring Harwich or as far away as New York City. In fact,back in February, a bunch of our kids took a road trip to Newton South to see State Radio play, and help NS raise over $20K to help Darfur.Now's your chance to have an awesome and purposeful road trip. On May 11th, with doors at 6:30 PM and the show starting at 7, we're holding the Darfur Battle of the Bands Cape Cod with overnine high schools participating from Bourne by the bridge to Nauset out on the arm. This show is going to rock; I know because I've seen almost all the bands--they're great. I'd say I can't believehigh school kids have this much musical talent, but I won't because it's just like the amazing talent we've seen all across this country as the youth of the Save Darfur movement--mainly in the formof STAND chapter members--have led the way in Darfur activism.The show is at the Mattacheese Middle School, which is off exit 7 on the Mid-Cape high way. Head south to Higgins Crowell Rd., follow a 1/4 mile to the rotary, where you go right, sticking w/Higgins Crowell. About 1 mile down on the right you will pass an elementary school on your left, then the Mattacheese Middle School driveway will on your left. If you get to the Yarmouth PoliceDepartment, you just missed the driveway.Tickets $10 at the door with proceeds to Doctors Without Borders and other Darfur charities.Also, while you're reading: hats off to Spenser Lawrence who has done an awesome job with this incredibly time-consuming job. You rule Spence--it's been a pleasure getting to know you thisyear. I've got your back bro' Recommendations for life, on me!Jeff HowellDennis-Yarmouth Regional High School. The winner gets recording time with a guy who did production work with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers!STAND, faculty advisor774-840-0289howellj@dy-regional.k12.ma.uscall me if you get lost on the night of the event!PS. If you have a high school band that can make the trip, and you're awesome, contact me on myspace.com/howellhumanrights. I'll check out your sound clips and see if we can fit you in theshow. The winner gets recording time with a guy who did production work with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers!

Since the massacre at Virginia Tech took place there have been outpourings of sympathy and condolences for the survivors throughout the country, which continues to grieve with them. As students, this tragedy has struck particularly hard. We know that this random attack could have occurred in many places, at any of our schools, and we stand together with our fellow students at Virginia Tech.As a student organization, created by students and run by students, STAND feels a profound grief for this loss of precious life. Over the past two weeks, as we have learned more about the individual lives and commitments of those who were killed, we were deeply saddened to hear that three of the students served as active members of the Virginia Tech STAND chapter. We mourn for all those killed that day and feel a sense of solidarity with their friends, families and all Virginia Tech students.We ask that, as members not only of the STAND community but also of the larger student community and the human community that you join us in honoring those who died and supporting the Virginia Tech community as it begins to rebuild.In peace and solidarity,Erin Mazursky, Director, Georgetown '07For any further questions or comments, please feel free to contact me at erin@standnow.org

We are currently having a coin drive in all T.A.'s. Each T.A. has an info packet, a container for change, and a petition to the U.N. Concerning Darfur. Please, everybody, get your T.A.s to know about whats going on in Darfur and donate to the cause. Please get people to read the info packet and sign the petition. If every student in the United States donated just a dime, we could raise 5.4 million.

Welcome To The Montpelier STAND Website

STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition is an umbrella organization of over 600 high school and college chapters dedicated to putting an end to genocide, specifically the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
STAND formed out of the rapidly growing student movement to protect Darfur and works to unify this anti-genocide movement under one message by providing students with informational, educational and organizing resources, empowering them through an extensive network of impassioned student activists and advocating for a change in the world’s mentality towards genocide.
Join the STAND network by contacting your Regional Outreach Coordinator today and become a part of an international network of students in the fight against the world’s most egregious human rights violations.
Don’t Stand By. STAND Up!